When using seed balls for guerilla gardening, or just to make planting your own garden a bit easier, it's a good idea to use flower varieties that do well in your region with no additional rain or fertilizer from you. So it makes sense to use wildflowers that are adapted to your regional conditions. If you're interested in making wildflower seedballs to use in the Midwest, here are some of the best flowers to include in your seed ball recipe:
- Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
- Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa, Asclepias incarnata)
- Compass Plant (Silphium laciniatum)
- Sweet coneflower (Rudbeckia submentosa)
- Black Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
- Mexican Hat (Ratibida columnaris)
- Baby Blue Eyes (Nemophilia menziesii)
- Russell Lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus)
- Blue Flax (Linum perenne)
- Scarlet Flax Linum rubrum)
- Wild Annual Sunflower (Helianthus annuus)
- Perennial Gaillardia (Gaillardia grandiflora)
- Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
- Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus)
- Sulfur Cosmos (Orange Cosmos) (Cosmos sulfureus)
- Plains Coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria)
- Lanceleaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata)
- Siberian Wallflower (Cheiranthus allionii)
- Prairie Aster (Symphyotrichum turbinellum)
- Upland White Aster (Aster ptarmicoides)
- Perennial Lupine (Lupinus perennis)
- Prairie Coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)
- Gloriosa Daisy (Rudbeckia gloriosa)
